Re: GNOME3 Ugh! What specifically didn't work.
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:03:15 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> As a follow-up, installing gnaome-tweak-tool allows one to restore the
> minimize and maximize buttons to each window.
I guess this is what I get for using testing.
>
> When switching apps, Alt-Tab brings up the list of apps, but while
> continuing to hold down the Alt key, pressing left goes through the list
> from right to left. When one gets to an app with more than one window
> while still holding the Alt key, down arrow and then left or right
> selects one of the multiple windows.
This is starting to remind me of emacs -- an excellent UI system back in
the premouse 70's. All the hardware we had for user interfacing was
keyboard and screen, and emacs used them brilliantly.
I expect something less obscure in the 10's., though I still use emacs
because my fingers know the way.
> Apps that used the former system tray now place their icons in a special
> bar at the bottom of the screen. Moving the mouse to the lower right
> corner makes the bar visible. I am seeing my apps from Spideroak and
> WiCD in that area.
I had no idea I had to move the mouse to that corner. How would anyone
guess that?
>
> Not GNOME 3 specific although related. I have noticed that the version
> of Network Manager in Wheezy and Oneiric will get a bad case of dropping
> the network when streaming audio to a PulseAudio server over the
> network. It seems that WiCD has no such issue and handles the streaming
> just fine. In times past I would purge NM after installing WiCD as they
> don't play together in my experience. Now the gnome-core and gnome
> packages are dependent on NM so I had to leave it installed and change
> all of its S links in /etc/rc[2-5].d to K links. It seems as though
> gnome-core should have a co-depends on either network-manager-gnome or
> wicd. That may be worthy of a bug report.
>
> - Nate >>
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